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Prose

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.

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Euphuism 76% connected

An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

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Genre 76% connected

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Prosaic 74% connected

Alt. of Prosaical

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Prosaic 74% connected

Alt. of Prosaical

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Prosy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

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Prosy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

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Voice noun · 85% connection

A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.

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Allegory noun · 84% connection

an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

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Narration noun · 84% connection

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radi…

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Narrative noun · 84% connection

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radi…

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Story noun · 84% connection

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radi…

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Tale noun · 84% connection

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radi…

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Literary genre noun · 78% connection

a style of expressing yourself in writing

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Nonfiction noun · 78% connection

prose writing that is not fictional

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Writing style noun · 78% connection

a style of expressing yourself in writing

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, a , or an . PCP. It is unknown · 78% connection

() Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in read…

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Beat noun · 78% connection

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Cadence noun · 78% connection

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

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Foot noun · 78% connection

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or l…

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Free verse noun · 78% connection

unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

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Georgic adjective · 78% connection

A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

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Grammar noun · 78% connection

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art conc…

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Intercalation noun · 78% connection

The insertion or introduction of anything among others, as the insertion of a phrase, line, or verse in a metrical composition; specif…

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Measure noun · 78% connection

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Meter noun · 78% connection

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Metre noun · 78% connection

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, an…

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Ode noun · 78% connection

A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble senti…

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Paracrostic noun · 78% connection

A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.

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Pleonasm noun · 78% connection

Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own…

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Poem noun · 78% connection

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by i…

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Poetical adjective · 78% connection

Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

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Poetry noun · 78% connection

Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poe…

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